*as portrayed by Robin Curtis.
**like Robin Curtis, Adrienne Barbeau did a second portrayal of a Trek character. In her case, she appeared as Senator Cretak.
Sarek’s clean fringe cut vs that of 1960s icon designer Mary Quant as styled by Vidal Sassoon.
In this tweet is the Cliff Notes for the thread I put out this morning. I do believe it’s important to understand where these people are coming from b/c right now we have preachers saying gays should be put to death and men hauled like cargo to a Pride event to do violence.
All your arguing about shrimp and tattoos and mixed fiber clothes is useless because this is the foundation. They’re only picking and choosing from the Old Testament and may go on about how gays should put to death while enjoying some barbecue ribs or a cheeseburger.
All the while looking like they’ll serve you a craft beer going by their tattoo sleeves.
Romans 1: Paul’s Tossed Word Salad: The Root 🧵
Since it’s still Pride Month and today is Sunday, let’s take a look at St Paul’s hot mess of a homophobic text in his intro.
CW: Christianity, Bible, New Testament, anti-gay text, religious homophobia, Bible “clobber passages”
First, a few things:
The Epistle to the Romans like other writing attributed to the Apostle Paul, is in the form of a letter to a church somewhere in the Roman Empire, in this case, Rome.
In these letters are a greeting, thoughts and addresses and acknowledgements.
I’m not getting into the veracity of these epistles or if St Paul was indeed a real person or if he actually wrote these.
There were a lot of competing texts and ideas in early Christianity but this letter to the Romulans became canon.
The problem with civility as I see if is you are civil to bigots, fundamentalists, Nazis is that they’ll interpret your behavior towards them as what they do is OK.
What other problems are there with being civil towards violently toxic people?
Conversely, if you ridicule them or show hostility to them, especially for their beliefs, there is the risk of pushing them further into their beliefs.
I remember being taught in American evangelicalism that non Christians being hostile was evidence…
That they were being persecuted just like Jesus said Christians would be.
Also, Paul fed into narrative too, first as Pharisee persecutor of Christians and then after finding Jesus, saw Hellenic and Roman state persecution as evidence of such…
WWJD? A couple of things Jesus would say about jobs. 🧵
Consider this is an ex-tradesman (according to tradition, a carpenter in the family business) who for much of the Gospels narrative held no job but had at least one sugar daddy (Nicodemus) & perhaps a couple of sugar mamas.
It sounds like he’d condemn holding more than one job or say you shouldn’t have a side hustle.
And his overall point is you shouldn’t focus on your money, think about your survival, but focus on God.
But what if you’re a slave who wants to buy your own manumission?
The whole sermon talking point seems to be more rooted in the banal institution of Roman slavery, so it’s no second jobs or businesses or side hustles for slaves. Because you can’t have two masters (loyalty issues) which then gets spiritualized as God vs money.
I mentioned this before, even a week ago: I wasn’t even supposed to had had to had the chance to graduate from high school, let alone ever get through first grade. Psychiatrist wrote a disabled child as should be institutionalized
Here, I am thankful for a parent’s judgment against an expert, as my mother only completed school up to the 8th grade, was learning English at the time, and was an immigrant wife of an Americans in the military.